A To­co house­wife who went search­ing for her hus­band af­ter he didn’t re­turn home af­ter vis­it­ing friends found his body down a precipice a short dis­tance from their home ear­li­er this week.

The 34-year-old woman told po­lice her hus­band left their Sans Souci home around 3 pm and when he didn’t re­turn home, she got wor­ried and be­gan to search for him.

A short dis­tance from her home, the woman no­ticed a pool of blood, a beer bot­tle and a knife on the road­way. She fol­lowed the trail of blood down a precipice where she found her hus­band ly­ing.

Of­fi­cers from To­co Po­lice Sta­tion vis­it­ed the scene and were joined by homi­cide of­fi­cers from Arou­ca Bu­reau Re­gion 11.

Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr Ash­by Ram­per­sad viewed the body and or­dered its re­moval to the mor­tu­ary at the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal. A post mortem is ex­pect­ed to be con­duct­ed at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre in St James.

Of­fi­cers from Arou­ca Homi­cide Bu­reau Re­gion 11 are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion.